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Da Capo Signs Tiger Woods Bio By Rachel Deahl - 02/08/2010
Perseus imprint Da Capo Press has closed a deal for a new biography of controversy-embroiled superstar Tiger Woods.
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Deals: 2/8/2010 by Rachel Deahl - 02/08/2010
Time Travel... for Teens; Music, Lyrics, and Pictures, by Hamlisch; Immortal Beloveds; more.
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Bray Lands Major Deal at Little, Brown By Rachel Deahl - 02/04/2010
Libba Bray, hot off her Printz win for Going Bovine, has landed a major book deal at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Bray's agent-husband, Barry Goldblatt, sold North American rights, in an auction featuring six houses, to a new YA series called The Diviners to LBBYR senior v-p and publisher Megan Tingley, deputy publisher Andrew Smith, and senior editor Alvina Ling.
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Grand Central in New Deal with Preston/Child 02/01/2010
Grand Central Publishing has extended its relationship with bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child in a new deal that will include a new, original series of novels as well as the continuation of their Pendergast novels.
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Deals: 2/1/2010 by Rachel Deahl - 02/01/2010
GCP Gets Simon's 'Girl'; Caruso-Cabrera Lands at S&S; more.
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Digital Book World: Debating E-Rights Issues By Rachel Deahl - 01/27/2010
In a dynamic panel at Digital Book World about rights in the electronic age, a number of hot-button, complex issues were broached on Tuesday afternoon.
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Deals: 1/25/2010 by Rachel Deahl - 01/25/2010
Gortner Goes to Ballantine... and SMP; Crow's Cancer Diet; Europa Nabs British Backlister; more
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Notes From the Bookroom Michael Scharf, Fiction Reviews Editor, Publishers Weekly August 21, 2007 Russian Chemistry
Serious Russian chemistry flares this Fall (which seems to have already arrived in ... More